Okharian languages

The Okharian language family is most the most widely spoken language family of Allwanduir.

74 centuries ago, the first written trace of a language was recorded. Only Allwanduirian languages are oral but all sentient species have written languages, and this was one of those. This was also set at the beginning of a period called the Spread, when the colonization of the world was being finalized by all sentient species. That era would end 54 centuries ago.
One would have to wait until 9,200 BN to see a written trace of an Okharian language, but that material, although authentified, is somewhat controversial due to its scarceness and age.
The history of Ov starts in 6,712 BN. A document (of this year, converted to the modern system) was found which is the oldest clearly dated known document. This is considered the birthdate of Okharian languages and the starting point of the Proto-Ov era.
In the 45th century BN, Proto-Ov shows evidence of splitting between Upper Okharian and Lower Okharian.
The Upper Okharian variant would split between Old Ov and Old Theer in the 22nd century BN. Middle Ov would emerge in the 8th century BN, while Theer went extinct in the 10th century BN. From Old Ov were derived the Okhar-Shkenzi languages, a cluster of languages about as close to each other as the Romance languages on Earth, including Ov itself.


The Lower Okharian variant was very diversified between the 40th and 25th centuries BN, a time when no less than seven variants (consisting themselves of many dialects) survived in thriving literature to this day: Okhar-Vuzen, Okhar-Qald, Vayst-Okhar, Lendhrian, Vouzishan, Khudhuan and Boldhar. Okhar-Vuzen and Lendhrian went extinct in the 22nd century BN, after the Kokhost Empire unified the South. Vouzishan went extinct in the 17th century BN and Khudhuan in the 15th century BN, both under the influence of the Rueth religious empire (19th - 13th cent. BN) that made Okhar-Qald into its official sacred language. Although deprecated after the fall of the Empire, Okhar-Qald remained widely spoken by the people, and artists had revived it to the international attention by the 7th century BN. Today, Western Qald and Eastern Qald are its descendants, and cohabit with Modern Boldhar and Vayst (descending respectively from Boldhar and Vayst-Okhar, which also makes them related) to account for most of the languages spoken in southern Kokhost.

Successor Languages

• Ov language